Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages

Z. David Zuwiyya, Ph.D. (1995) in Spanish, University of California, Santa Barbara, is Professor of Spanish at Auburn University. He has published extensively on the Alexander romance and Aljamiado literature, including Islamic Legends concerning Alexander the Great (Binghamton, NY, 2001)

• Chapter One: Introduction: the Latin base texts for medieval Alexander literature, Richard StonemanChapter Two: Jewish Traditions of Alexander, Saskia DönitzChapter Three: The Group of Syriac Texts concerning Alexander,Juan Pedro Monferrer SalaChapter Four: The Arabic Alexander Tradition, Z. David ZuwiyyaChapter Five: Alexander among the People of Persia, Josef Wiesehöfer Chapter Six: The Alexander Romance in Coptic, Daniel SeldenChapter Seven: The Alexander Romance in Ethiopia, Peter Kotar Chapter Eight: The Alexandreis of Gautier de Chatillon, Maura LaffertyChapter Nine: Medieval French Alexander Romance I, Laurence Harf-LancnerChapter Ten: Medieval French Alexander Romance II, Sarah-Jane MurrayChapter Eleven: Alexander in Medieval Christian Spain, Z. David ZuwiyyaChapter Twelve: The Medieval British Alexander Romance, David AshurstChapter Thirteen: The German Alexander: D. BuschingerChapter Fourteen: Alexander the Great in Italian Literature of the Middle Ages, Roberta MorosiniChapter Fifteen: Medieval Scandinavian Alexander Romance, David Ashurst

"The Companion to Alexander Literature of the Middle Ages offers the reader a guide to the multilingual and multicultural complexity of the medieval Alexander legend. [It] is an excellent companion to the study of the medieval Alexander traditions." – David Elton Gay, Indiana University, in: Journal of Folklore Research (September 2012) [Full review]